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Watched the movie "Sneakers" tonight. It's been a long time since I'd seen it. It was ok. I did like at the end when the main characters were telling an NSA agent (James Earl Jones) what they wanted in exchange for the macguffin they had. One of them said he wanted "Peace on Earth, good will towards men." James Earl Jones replied "We're the United States government. We don't do that sort of thing!"
Edit: clothed post.
That movie has so many good moments.
I like the "cocktail party".
I am fairly certain that the building they have to break into is actually the Genentech facility just north of the Bay Area. I've driven past it a hundred times. Sadly never saw Dan Aykroyd or David Strathairn in the parking lot.
Last weekend, we watched The Sting.
I was gratified to note how many times my twelve year old howled with laughter.
Watched the movie "Sneakers" tonight. It's been a long time since I'd seen it. It was ok. I did like at the end when the main characters were telling an NSA agent (James Earl Jones) what they wanted in exchange for the macguffin they had. One of them said he wanted "Peace on Earth, good will towards men." James Earl Jones replied "We're the United States government. We don't do that sort of thing!"Edit: clothed post.
That movie has so many good moments.
I like the "cocktail party".I am fairly certain that the building they have to break into is actually the Genentech facility just north of the Bay Area. I've driven past it a hundred times. Sadly never saw Dan Aykroyd or David Strathairn in the parking lot.
Last weekend, we watched The Sting.
I was gratified to note how many times my twelve year old howled with laughter.
If you ever find it in English, watch Polish movie Vabank and its second part.
And a meeting to play Twilight Imperium got canceled at the last minute (one of the players woke up with a fever). Again. Last time it was the hostess who had to cancel because of feeling unwell.
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Watched the movie "Sneakers" tonight. It's been a long time since I'd seen it. It was ok. I did like at the end when the main characters were telling an NSA agent (James Earl Jones) what they wanted in exchange for the macguffin they had. One of them said he wanted "Peace on Earth, good will towards men." James Earl Jones replied "We're the United States government. We don't do that sort of thing!"Edit: clothed post.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
This was the perfect opportunity for you to be naked EXCEPT for sneakers!
More seriously I haven't seen that movie in a long long time.
As most of you have already heard, I didnt have cable growing up, so that meant watching channel 11/WPIX- the MOVIE channel.
They had a more or less set schedule and showed the same movies just about every day on their calendar. Because of...stupid family/cultural nonsense, I couldn't watch tv during the week. I grew up watching the commercials for this mysterious movie, with James Earl Jones and people sneaking(pun not intended) about. I can almost remember the commercial/preview for the movie.
Its so weird living in a time where I can watch just about any movie I want, because growing up I had to wait for the right time of year to see incredibly specific movies and if they came on during the week I might not be able to see them at all. I learned how to program a VCR just to get around that.
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Young apprentice, why your homework is completely unreadable under all those ink stains, again?!
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Young apprentice, why your homework is completely unreadable under all those ink stains, again?!
I would say this was the excuse i needed but i happen to know it doesn't work...
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It really is depressing watching animals behave in a manner that's detrimental to them, and having no way to communicate with them. (At least if a person is being self-destructive and you point it out and they continue doing it, you can wash your hands of them.)
GothBard's gone for 3 weeks and I was worried Nefret would pine away in her lonely existence in the studio; when we were in Vegas for only 5 days she lost almost half a pound.
So when it started sprinkling I brought her into the house.
The kittens spend almost every day sleeping in the studio with her nearby, so her presence is nothing new to them. But in the house!?!?!? They were all curiosity, and wanted to sniff her, lie with her, or otherwise socialize with her. And she growled and hissed and ran away to the point that I came across a tableau of her trotting through the dining room, one kitten ahead of her and two behind her, and she was hissing and growling and horrifically upset, and they were all tails straight up, happy-as-can-be, "What's wrong? Can we help you?"
Can't help but me reminded of Clippy. But cuter.
ALL Nefret has to do is not hate the kittens and her life would be SO much better. They've been better towards her than any kittens I've ever seen towards and older cat. And she'll have none of it.
Is there something the older can can/will get into and not be followed? A catwalk that's high up, a box with a hole in front for one cat, a bedroom the kittens aren't allowed in, a doggie door with a heavy door the cat will push open but the kittens can't....?
You might be fighting nature here. Without the oxytocin blast from caring for kittens most cats don't care if another living thing lives or dies, and once kittens hit a certain point even that stops and you bap them in the head till they move out somewhere.
Sometimes just being ABLE to get away from someone elses brats is all you need to tolerate them. Not that I have any experience with that twitch twitch twitch twitch twitch twitchtwitch twitch twitchtwitch twitch twitchtwitch twitch twitchtwitch twitch twitch
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It really is depressing watching animals behave in a manner that's detrimental to them, and having no way to communicate with them. (At least if a person is being self-destructive and you point it out and they continue doing it, you can wash your hands of them.)
GothBard's gone for 3 weeks and I was worried Nefret would pine away in her lonely existence in the studio; when we were in Vegas for only 5 days she lost almost half a pound.
So when it started sprinkling I brought her into the house.
The kittens spend almost every day sleeping in the studio with her nearby, so her presence is nothing new to them. But in the house!?!?!? They were all curiosity, and wanted to sniff her, lie with her, or otherwise socialize with her. And she growled and hissed and ran away to the point that I came across a tableau of her trotting through the dining room, one kitten ahead of her and two behind her, and she was hissing and growling and horrifically upset, and they were all tails straight up, happy-as-can-be, "What's wrong? Can we help you?"
Can't help but me reminded of Clippy. But cuter.
ALL Nefret has to do is not hate the kittens and her life would be SO much better. They've been better towards her than any kittens I've ever seen towards and older cat. And she'll have none of it.
im sure cat-freehold will win her over.
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Is there something the older can can/will get into and not be followed? A catwalk that's high up, a box with a hole in front for one cat, a bedroom the kittens aren't allowed in, a doggie door with a heavy door the cat will push open but the kittens can't....?
You might be fighting nature here. Without the oxytocin blast from caring for kittens most cats don't care if another living thing lives or dies, and once kittens hit a certain point even that stops and you bap them in the head till they move out somewhere.
Sometimes just being ABLE to get away from someone elses brats is all you need to tolerate them. Not that I have any experience with that twitch twitch twitch twitch twitch twitchtwitch twitch twitchtwitch twitch twitchtwitch twitch twitchtwitch twitch twitch
Yeah, she has her own space, and if the kittens annoy her we close the door so she gets her own room. But after a couple of generations of introducing kittens to adult cats, Nefret's the first one other than Lily to completely reject the new generation.
2004: Calypso, 13: The smartest cat we've ever owned, though Morrigan may be vying for that title. When her companion Sekhmet died, we introduced two kittens. She adopted them pretty much immediately, and the three of them were frequently found lying in a pile together. When one of the kittens was hit by a car and we brought in Calliope. Once again Calypso (and Sama) accepted her without issue.
2007: Sama and Calypso, 3 and 16: Calliope got hit by a car (see a theme here? Why we keep our cats on leads?). We brought in Lily, the Cranky Calico. Our mistake. She was hopped up on pregnancy hormones when we adopted her. Once those went away, hoo, boy. But watching a genius cat (Calypso) brutalize an annoying interloper is side-splitting.
2007: Sama and Lily, 3 and 4: Calypso finally passed away at 16 and we brought in Nefret. Sama adopted her immediately. Lily hated Nefret for the next 18 years.
So the only adult adoption we've ever had issues with has been the Cranky Calico, so we thought of her as the exception...
Speaking of self-destructive behaviors, I know I've mentioned this before, but modern phone etiquette drives me batty.
The evolution as I saw it:
Late 1970s/early 1980s: Phone answering machines became commonplace. A few people started using them to screen their calls. Cue a widespread indignant rebellion of, "Oh, if you didn't pick up, heck if I'm going to leave a message! Apparently I'm not important enough to you for you to pick up."
The bizarre, unimaginably egocentric entitlement of the mindset, "The only reason this person could possibly not be answering is because they're screening their calls and they're explicitly excluding me," is mind-boggling.
Mid-1990s: Caller ID became commonplace.
For some of us, this was a blessing because it eliminated the number of kids making prank calls. (One of our phone numbers was a perfect triangle on the keypad, so we were a popular target of younger, stupider kids.) It did nothing to shut up the, "You're intentionally screening me!" crowd, so refusing to leave messages somehow became "admirable"?
Early 2000s: Spam calls became so ubiquitous that picking up the phone if the caller ID didn't tell you who it was was guaranteed to waste your time. The indignant crowd taught a new generation that leaving messages is for suckers.
2010s: Even doctors' offices, dentists, and businesses jumped on the, "Leaving messages is for suckers," bandwagon.
It absolutely baffles me. I am a human being. I sleep. I use the bathroom. I take showers. I go for walks. Even if you're a legitimate caller there's a good percentage chance you won't reach me.
And yet you won't leave a message because it's "for losers" or whatever.
Baffling.
This will only end in tears.
As I've mentioned, the ragamuffins (Lenore and Nefret) get 40' leads (around 12m to you furriners) and have free reign over the entire yard. The hellions get 8' leads tied to the base of a cat tree. They cannot understand the fundamental unfairness of it all. And even, "Every time I jump a fence or climb onto the roof or run under the deck the mean giant ape throws me inside" hasn't been enough to make them think, "Hmm... maybe I shouldn't do that."
I'm honestly surprised Morrigan hasn't learned yet. I do not expect Mephisto to ever learn.
So today Mephisto's out on a 10' extensible lead connected to the clothesline so he has MUCH more freedom and can't get tangled. It's rated for "dogs up to 20 lbs". Watching him straining against it and looking at the thin string between him and freedom, I don't think the thing's going to last a day against his might.
So... 20 pound dog you say? What is that in hypermuscular, super-dense cat pounds?